Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...
Officially, the margin of triumph was three-quarters of a length and the time was 6 minutes, 57 seconds. Though the race was close, the lightweights had conquered Thames and four other heavyweight crews to win the Thames Challenge Cup. Harvard was the only American victor in the entire regatta...
...Pressagents gave a mighty buildup to Heavyweight Challenger Roy Harris, 25, of Cut and Shoot. Texas, but they forgot to give him a mighty punch. Half with a right and half with a shove, Harris put Champion Floyd Patterson, 23, on the canvas for a four-count in the second, the only round he won. But the expressionless champ did not even blink, came back to floor Harris four times, open up a mass of cuts that required 14 stitches to close. After twelve rounds the challenger was a bloody hulk, could go no farther. Referee Mushy Callahan took...
...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...
...Harris, a heavyweight (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) from Cut and Shoot, Texas, has fought 22 professional bouts and won them all, but he has never been seen either on TV or outside Texas. Last week, to stir the nation's interest in the new contender for the heavyweight crown (he is due to fight Champion Floyd Patterson in Los Angeles on Aug. 18), TelePrompTer Corp. offered a Texas junket to some of Yankeeland's top sportswriters. What the ringside pros saw left them happy, dazed, full of copy, and fat pigeons for TelePrompTer's pressagents...